Global Consciousness Project

Registering Coherence and
Resonance
in the
World

"The Global Consciousness Project, also known as the EGG Project, is an international multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists, engineers, artists and others continuously collecting data from a global network of physical random number generators located in 65 host sites worldwide. The archive contains over 10 years of random data in parallel sequences of synchronized 200-bit trials every second."

Along my Christian spiritual journey, there were markers, some of them being points at which unanswered fundamental questions about the faith of Christ the LORD left me hungering. One which I recall with specificity was concerning the nature of the Trinity – which was how did the idea of the Trinity and the nature of the same come to be?

For that, I had to look back nearly two thousand years into the formative period of Christendom when a fellow named Athanasius who lived 296-373, defended the newly formed church against heresy & schism against the heretical matter of Arianism. Specifically, Athanasius defended the Church on the nature of the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), against the ideas of a man named Arius.

In a nutshell, what Arius taught denied that the Son is of one essence, nature, or substance with God; that Jesus is not consubstantial (Greek word homoousios) with the Father, and therefore not like Him, or equal in dignity, or co-eternal, or within the real sphere of Deity. Arius and his followers said that the Son was “unlike” the Father. They denied His co-equal dignity and co-eternal existence. While they affirmed the Word of God to be everlasting, they imagined God as having become the Son to create the worlds and redeem mankind.

The orthodox, traditional view defended and supported by Athanasius (the phrase “Athanasius contra mundum,” translated as “Athanasius against the world” arose at that time) was that there was only one God; and the Trinity, that this Absolute One existed in three distinct subsistences; and the Circumincession, that Father, Word, and Spirit could not be separated, either in fact or in thought, from one another; yet an opening was left for discussion as regarded the term “Son,” and the period of His “generation” (gennesis).

Arising from that entire discussion was the Nicene Creed, to which practically every Christian church to this day holds true as fundamental, foundational doctrine.

Consequently, Athanasius is one of my patrons (a saint with whose life I can identify). John Henry Newman is the other, because he was, like me, a convert to the Catholic church from the Anglican church.

In the link below, the writer expresses practically the exact same sentiments as I had when I converted.